Identifier: historyofgreatr00merl (find matches)
Title: History of the great reformation in Europe in the times of Luther and Calvin..
Year: 1870 (1870s)
Authors: Merle d'Aubigné, Jean Henri. (from old catalog)
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Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ed therope so as to raise his arms above hishead ; lastly they lifted him five or sixfeet from the floor, which was enough todislocate his shoulders. Pecolat suffered horribly, and he was not a Regulus. Letme down ! let me down! he cried, andI will tell all. Terrified and frantic, to the falsest im-putations against the noblest of his friends,he answered, Yes, yes! and the satis-fied judges sent him back to his dungeon.In his cell, the fear of Gods judgment sur-passed all previous terrors. v Gentlemen,said he to those standing around him, mydeclarations were extorted from me onlyby the fear of torture. If I had died atthat moment, I should have been eternallydamned for my lies. In Geneva, the terror increased everyday. People kept themselves indoors ; thestreets were deserted. The bishop nowboldly sought to catch Berthelier, and theleague was nearly dissolved when mostneeded. At eight oclock in the eveningof the 28th of July, 1517, the council wassitting, when the president, who was on
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TORTURE OF PECOLAT. HISTORY OF THE REFORMATION. 53o the bishops side, said: It is my lords I with a look of astonishment; I hadpleasure that we take up one of his sub- j never even thought of it. A safe-conductjects against whom he possesses sufficient j for Berthelier . . . why, he does not re- informations, which he will communicate mproper time and place ; and that when thesaid subject is in prison, the syndics shallexecute justice, if the affair requires it. Berthelier was absent, and the councilanswered they would take up the accusedif the bishop maintained the liberties of Geneva. Bonivard, with others of Bertheliers friends, urged him to escape by flight:The sword is over your head, he said.I know it, answered Berthelier; yes,I know that I shall die, and I do not grieveat it. He was finally persuaded to es-cape in the company of some envoys from Friburg, disguised in a livery cloak. Thebishop was exasperated at the delay. Do you mean to give him time toescape? he asked. The council

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